Nigeria’s food inflation rose to an 8-month high as the effect of Russia and Ukraine’s war 9,475 kilometres away continued to rake havoc in Nigerian homes....
Many people are feared to have lost their lives during a stampede at a programme put together by a church, Kings’ Assembly, in Port Harcourt, RIvers...
The Rivers State government has on Saturday warned individuals or groups fanning the embers of discord in the state to have a rethink. The government was...
Police on Thursday arrested a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Rivers State, Farah Dagogo, after he was declared wanted by Governor Nyesom Wike. Dagogo,...
An unspecified number of people were burnt beyond recognition following an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in Rivers State on Saturday. The Director-General of National...
The Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Thursday sentenced four men to death for murder in the state. The state government arraigned the quartet –...
States are going through a difficult period. Forget the politics of attempting to get power, being at the helm of affairs is more difficult; that is,...
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 19 suspected oil thieves in Rivers State. The suspects were arrested with three tanker trucks, a...
The Federal High Court in Abuja, in a new ruling, has faulted and tagged as illegal, the prospect of the Federal Government asking States to fund...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday vowed to ensure the destruction of all illegal oil refineries in the state. Wike stated this during a...
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has alleged that the state governor, Nyesom Wike is aiding illegal oil bunkering in the state....
Three people were found dead in a hotel at Elele Alimini, Emohua local government area of Rivers State on Monday. Residents of the community told journalists...
The Magnus Abe-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has inaugurated a parallel state exceutive, taking the crisis in the Rivers State...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday commission a housing project in Rivers State, donated to the police by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). It was...
The Rivers State government on Tuesday dragged the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) to the Supreme Court over the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT). In...
A former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, on Sunday also weighed into the current discourse about the VAT Amendment Bill being passed by Rivers and...
The joint suit by Lagos and Rivers States to challenge the collection of Value Added Tax by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has resulted in...
Police operatives in Rivers State have rescued eight passengers kidnapped by sea pirates in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, SP Nnamdi Omoni,...
The five members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) and three other persons abducted by suspected pirates in Rivers State have regained their freedom....
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N86.5 billion for repair works on federal roads in Lagos and Rivers States. The Minister of Works and Housing,...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a container carrying about 4,996,200 capsules of tramadol weighing 2,498.2 kilograms at the Onne Port,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 17 suspected internet fraudsters in Enugu and Rivers State. The EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, on Saturday, disclosed that some of the gunmen responsible for the ambushes and killing of security personnel in...
A new index has ranked 19 Nigerian states below the benchmark for transparency and accountability in the use of public funds and overall governance. The report...
About seven policemen are feared dead after unknown gunmen attacked two police stations in Obio-Akpor and Emuoha Local Government Areas of Rivers State. After the incident...
The Governor of River State, Nyesom Wike, has declared a statewide curfew in Rivers, over the recent security breaches in the state. The governor in a...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that the votes of residents in Rivers, Kano and Lagos is crucial to the ambition of any presidential...
The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) has cleared 17 political parties for the April 17 local council election in the state. However, the All Progressives...
Soldiers attached to the 144 Battalion, Asa, Ukwa West local government area of Abia State have reportedly destroyed an illegal oil refinery in Odogba community in...
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has sacked the state’s Commissioner for Environment, Igbiks Tamuno. In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has given quit notices to the founder of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, the proscribed Indigenous People...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, fixed March 5 for judgment in a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) challenging the ruling of the lower...
Suspected gunmen are reported to have abducted the monarch of Ikuru town in the Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, HRM Aarom Ikuru, at his...
Placard-wielding residents of Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the Rivers State on Wednesday, marched to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company in Calabar, to protest a...
Two persons were feared dead as gunmen suspected to be cultists invaded Rumuomasi community in the Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Ripples Nigeria gathered...
A twin blast rocked the Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday. The explosion, which was suspected to be...
A 68-year-old man, Sunday Joel, from Akwa Ibom State, has sought N100m from the police for the death of his 30-year old son, Nsikak Joel. The...
Gunmen on Tuesday morning abducted a lecturer with the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in Rivers State, Mr. James Finwe. The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of...
Police in Rivers State on Saturday raided an illegal detention facility in Igwruta, Ikwerre local government area of the state. The facility is used by a...
Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have emerged as the three most indebted states in Nigeria, accounting for 23.9% of the country’s subnational domestic debt of...
Justice G.O Ollor of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, on Friday ordered the unconditional release of 150 inmates from the Maximum Port Harcourt Correctional...
The family of a 31-year-old taxi driver who was allegedly killed by a policeman in Rivers State over two years ago on Monday demanded an N100million...
The Rivers State Police Command said on Sunday three persons had been arrested in connection with the explosion that rocked a local church in Port Harcourt,...
Norde Sylvester, a 50-year old man and a civil servant with the Universal Basic Education (UBE), on Wednesday narrated how operatives of the now disbanded Special...
The police in Rivers State have arrested a councilor in the state, Blackson Nwanyawu (JP), from Etche local government area for allegedly battering his brother’s wife,...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has decried the alleged killing of Igbo youths by the Nigeria Military in Oyigbo, Rivers, State. It said the development was threatening the cordial...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain the suit brought by the Bayelsa State government seeking to stop the Federal Government from further paying the...
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has imposed a 24-hour curfew in three local government areas of the state. The affected LGAs are Oyigbo, Obio/Akpor, and some...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday deployed special teams to deliver urgently needed assistance to 12 states most ravaged by flood in the country. The Senior Special...
